Energy and the Making of Modern California
James C. Williams’s history of energy development and use in California.
James C. Williams’s history of energy development and use in California.
Green Versus Gold examines California’s environmental history, ranging from its Native American past to conflicts and movements of recent decades.
This collection of essays looks at the ways tourism affects people and places in the Southwest and at the region’s meaning on the larger stage of national life.
An original history of “ecological” ideas of the body as it unfolded in California’s Central Valley.
A collection of essays addressing the collaboration of human and natural forces in the creation of cities, the countryside, and empires.
Food Fight looks at how American agricultural policy and food culture developed in the 20th century.
This article looks at romantic and critical narratives around protected areas, and highlights how Jane Carruthers’ writing refuses to embrace either.
This photo essay looks at how a forgotten local food—the berry-producing Manzanita shrub of northern California—has begun to make its way back into the diets of the local community.
This film focuses on the causes of the decimation of honey bees and their hives around the globe, a phenomenon called “colony collapse disorder,” and its consequences for not only the economy but for humans’ very survival.
Bringing together scholarship from across the globe, this volume of RCC Perspectives aims to shed light and stimulate discussion on the past, present, and future of the “unruly” environments that frustrate efforts at social and environmental control.